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As regular readers of the blog will know, yesterday afternoon I was at the Magistrates’ Court at Southampton for a while, at a case management hearing in relation to the prosecution of me instigated by the evil and malicious pack known as the “Campaign Against Antisemitism” (any trial will not be until November or December 2023, or possibly even on a date in 2024).
Later, in mid-afternoon, I was driving out through the nearby suburbs of Southampton. I happened to pass a pharmacy or, as people used to say, a chemist’s shop, on a mini-roundabout: the Bassett Pharmacy.
The Bassett Pharmacy, which I recognized from having seen a picture in the newspapers a couple of years ago, was called the Sunak Pharmacy at one time, and was owned until 2014 by the mother of Rishi Sunak, the Indian money-juggler presently posing as Prime Minister.
The Bassett Pharmacy sits on the corner of the road, next to a dentist’s surgery; there are a couple of other shops, one called, amusingly, “Talons— hair and nails”. Round the corner, a scruffy small area with cars parked, then, around another, similar, corner, an Indian-Bangladeshi restaurant, a cafe, and several more shops.
What struck me was not that a prime minister might have come from such humble circumstances —that is not so unusual, thinking of Mrs. Thatcher, John Major and others— but that Sunak should have originated there (I think that his family lived in a house not far away) and yet now is almost suffused with great wealth by reason of his own finance-business activities and also marriage into one of India’s richest families. What a contrast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak.
I wonder whether the money-juggler will still be Prime Minister this time next year. The opinion polls say no, but these things rarely work out as expected. I have no completely fixed view, despite the evident incompetence of the present government.
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As some lady said during the French Revolution, “those who live shall see…“, but I should not be surprised.
Some people, and peoples, never learn.
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Will there be some kind of second Civil War in Russia somewhere down the line? Maybe.
Uh-oh…what is going on? Just when the Ukrainian counteroffensive has been beaten down and run out of steam.
Is this true? What a time to have an internecine squabble, when the first priority must be to eliminate the Jew-Zionist regime in Kiev.
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Ian Robert Millard 
In my opinion the German party “AfD” is a kind of UKIP and will not be allowed to win; even if they do, they will NEVER do anything drastic because they will not be allowed, let’s not forget that the system is rigged.
That hateful fellow Glassman get away with murder because he is a Jew, any other person saying/doing the same things would have been kicked from Twatter or JewTube a long time ago.
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General Surovikin seems to be drunk; considering he is Russian this is highly probable. What do you think of this Ian? Is there a real possibility of a civil war in Russia?
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Claudius:
The difference between now in Russia and 1918 in the Russian Empire, i.e.the start of its last (official) civil war, is that there was a clear ideological split in 1918-1921— Bolshevism v. Tsarism (as well as other interveners, such as Ukrainian and other nationalists). Now, even “Putinism” is not a real ideology, and Ukraine is now separate. Within Russia proper, there are no competing ideologies actually fighting or about to fight. It is more like one of the struggles for the crown in earlier periods of Russian history, such as the revolts of the Streltsy (Kremlin guard) in the 17th Century.
Down the line, it is hard to say. There is no one ideology, as such, the adherents of which are either ruling or wanting to rule. However, there may be a kind of civil conflict without the participation of 99% of the Russian people.
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Good news about the whales. The f… bastards who murder them without any reason should be executed in a very painful way. I will never tolerate or excuse cruelty towards animals.
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Claudius:
Thank God that whaling is almost a thing of the past now. The major former whaling nations have stopped (Soviet Union/Russia for one), or are now very limited, as with Japan, which is now only whaling within its own Exclusive Economic Zone, and in a very limited way. Norway’s whaling fleet is very small, and I believe is largely rusting away, and uneconomic. Now Iceland is cutting back and effectively stopping.
See this:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/21/iceland-suspends-annual-whale-hunt-in-move-that-likely-spells-end-to-controversial-practice
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